Actors, samourai and courtesans
KUNISADA Utagawa, called TOYOKUNI III and HIROSHIGE Ando
FICHE 19225
(1786 - 1864) and (1797 - 1858)
Yoshida: Great Bridge on the Toyokawa River (Toyokawa Ôhashi)
Actor Arashi Rikan III (?) as Oran no Kata, with Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII
Woodblock print
1855
Fine impression on japan paper, signed Hiroshige ga and Toyokuni ga, plate 35 from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road by Two Brushes (Sôhitsu gojûsan tsugi), published by Maruya Kyûshirô. Censors' seals aratame, Hare 4.
Sheet: ôban (358 x 245 mm)
Reference: a proof is preserved in the MFA of Boston.
Condition: laid on Japan paper, folds in the corners.
450 €
